The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.